A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of

[Liberty1]

I see you haven't been to yosemite since the 40s.

[Scooter]

David B. Kopel is a gun nut who works at the Cato Institute. The Asia-Pacific Law Review isn't a peer-reviewed journal (meaning his article was not subjected to any sort of verification before publication).

Sorry Lib, but you've fallen for another North Vietnamese general's biography story.

[dales]

I see you haven't been to yosemite since the 40s.

I see you believe anyplace in CA with a mountain and a few pines is Yosemite NP (which is always crowded).

[Joe Guy]

Yo lib one.....you live in new mex.....

Santa Cruz?

[Scooter]

And yet, just for shits and giggles, let's pretend that what Lib1 sauis true. How is it, in a society where gun ownership is so restricted, where, if what he alleged is true (and the Japanese Constitution says no), police can break in anyone's door, that the result has not been the wholesale slaughter of Japanese people by its government?

Seems to me that this "police state" (god, that in itself is hilarious) provides a direct counterexample to his assertion that a citizenry needs to be armed to avoid being slaughtered by its own government.

[rubato]

I see you haven't been to yosemite since the 40s.

I see you believe anyplace in CA with a mountain and a few pines is Yosemite NP (which is always crowded).

Not in November-April when we usually go. Cold, but not crowded.

yrs,
rubato

[Rick]

Up close and personal...

[Gob]

No hope for sanity it would seem...

An 11-year-old boy takes aim with an assault rifle at the NRA conference

The incoming president of the National Rifle Association (NRA) has told attendees of its conference they are freedom fighters in a "culture war".

James Porter, who takes over the top job on Monday, issued the rallying cry at the NRA's annual meeting in Texas.

Tens of thousands of people are expected at the gun rights group's event, which comes weeks after the NRA helped stop a firearms control bill.

Gun control groups plan counter-demonstrations in Houston.

"This is not a battle about gun rights,'' Mr Porter told attendees on Friday, saying it was "a culture war".

"[You] here in this room are the fighters for freedom," the Alabama lawyer added. "We are the protectors."

[dales]

You're looking at the sanest bunch in the USA.

[Grim Reaper]

You probably get the idea. Its really not hard to find this stuff.

None of it means anything though in regards to gun control. The Soviets and Chinese would have ended up murdering just as many people. You act like a few uncoordinated individuals with no formal training would have been able to hold off entire armies.

[Gob]

You're looking at the insanest bunch in the USA.

Fixed.

Anyone who lets a child play with a lethal weapon of that sort is not sane.

[dales]

This statement might have given the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces pause (expcept it didn't).......

You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.

[Gob]

When William Crooks got a text message in which his son confessed ‘I killed Mom,’ he thought it was a joke.

‘Ok,’ Crooks replied. ‘Just throw her in the grove. We’ll take care of her later.’ This according to testimony Crooks, 41, gave in Wright County District Court in Clarion, Iowa Friday night. Son Noah Crooks, 14, stands accused of murdering and attempting to sexually assault his mother, William’s wife, 37-year-old Gretchen Crooks in 2012. The full message Noah sent the night of March 24 read ‘Dad this is Noah. I killed Mom accidentally. I regret it. Come home now please.’

William was away from the family’s rural home at the time. Mitchell County Deputy Jeff Huftalin later called the older Crooks and told him there had been an accident. In the 911 recording made on the night of the murder at the family's Osage home, Noah Crooks could be heard telling dispatcher: 'I’m not joking at all. She’s dead. I’m scared. I killed my mom with my .22. I don’t know why I did it.' 'I feel crazy and I know I'm not. I think I have some form of ADD,' Crooks told the 911 operator. 'I tried to rape her. I tried to rape her but I couldn't do it. 'Who tries to rape their own mom? My life is down the drain now.'

The 911 call, heard by the trial’s jury on May 3, continued: 'I just wish it was a dream so I could wake up and I could kiss her and hug her,' Noah is heard saying in the recording.

[Lord Jim]

I feel crazy and I know I'm not.

I beg to differ...

I think I have some form of ADD

Yeah, just as soon as "stone cold evil sociopath" is added to the list "ADD" symptoms....

[dales]

ADD =/= "Craziness" in the true therapueatic sennse although it might cause people to do crazy things"......murder not being one.

My guess would be more of some type of psychotic break from reality kind of like the little monster at Sandy Hook.

But what do I know, perhaps the little bastard took the Almond Joy candy bar advert to an extreme?

[Jarlaxle]

I had a fully-functioning military firearm (sans firing pin) no problem.

Many children in the USA are given their first .22 caliber rifles as children. Hopefully their parents aren't as stupid as these were.

Events such as this should have occurred thousands of times, but it has not.

I recall my uncle got his first rifle (a Marlin .22) when he was seven.

[Gob]

A six-year-old girl is in critical condition after she was shot in the chest by her 13-year-old brother as they played 'hide and seek' while home alone.

Neighbors said the young girl, who has not been identified, was carried to an ambulance by paramedics with a large wound on her chest around 7pm Saturday in Oakland Park, Florida. The 13-year-old boy, who has also not been named, spoke to authorities and drew pictures of how the shooting occurred. Police believe he found the handgun and then accidentally shot the girl.


The children were home alone at the time of the incident, Dani Moschella, a spokeswoman for the Broward Sheriff's Office, told NBC. 'It is very difficult when dealing with children, specifically children who've been through a very traumatic situation,' Moschella said. 'This family will never be the same after tonight, no matter how it ends up.'




Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z2SZLzxOCz

[dales]

What law(s) not already on the books would have prevented this tragedy?

[Scooter]

A requirement that guns be securely stored when there is no responsible adult in the house. And the parents should be charged with the severest form of homicide permitted under the law for being so reckless in allowing their children to get hold of their guns when they aren't there (although another change I would make would be that gun owners who irresponsibly allow their weapons to get into the wrong hands should be charged with murder if anyone dies as a result).

[oldr_n_wsr]

I really can't disagree with you scooter.

Hate to have to pass a law to force people to do something they should do anyway (like seatbelt laws).